Usually means: Stock dropping sharply, risky buy.
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▸ noun:  (trading) A stock whose price has dropped rapidly.

Similar:
crash, plummeting, knifing, a short drop and a sudden stop, ballistic knife, a quick drop and a sudden stop, jack-knife, knifecrime, downstrike, knifery, more...

Opposite:
rising knife, ascending knife, appreciating knife

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Similar:
crash, plummeting, knifing, a short drop and a sudden stop, ballistic knife, a quick drop and a sudden stop, jack-knife, knifecrime, downstrike, knifery, more...

Opposite:
rising knife, ascending knife, appreciating knife



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